2. I'm not the only one who has wondered just how Randy Seaver keeps up the blogging pace he has maintained for years. At some point I even wondered if Randy had a secret staff that read and fed him articles, posts, and links for all the amazing content he manages to include on his blog. This week Randy responded to the specific inquiry of some other John (not me) about how he gathers his weekly Best of the Genea-Blogs and his bi-weekly Genealogy News Bytes. It turns out Randy does not have a hidden staff and he reveals his secret in a post this week that you can read here.
3. With Halloween a mere five days from today, an interesting post was contributed this week by Peter Muise of New England Folklore blog. Peter explains about special names associated with the actual Day of Halloween and the few nights before Halloween. The author's mother remembers that in the 1940s there were three nights associated with Halloween in Haverhill, Massachusetts! I lived in Salem Depot, NH and then Concord, NH in the late 1950s through 1965 and I only recall Halloween as the night of October 31st. The worst thing associated with Halloween in Concord was the older teens who stole candy from younger kids. Back then, many of us used old cloth pillow cases as our bags for collected candy. Teenagers with no costumes except some kind of mask would come up and talk nicely asking if we had any good candy, etc. and then in a flash they would knife our bags so the candy scattered. They quickly collected the best of the candy they could locate. It was dangerous and outright mean. But when my family moved to south central New Jersey I was exposed to "Mischief Night," which was the night before Halloween when kids would egg houses, throw toilet paper into trees, soap car windows, spray shaving cream all over anything they desired, and commit other acts of vandalism such as smearing fudge or butterscotch toppings on house picture windows. I guess the grocery stores saw exploding sales of eggs, TP, shaving cream, soap bars, and dessert toppings in the days before the week of Halloween, but home owners hated it and often stood watch over their properties until past midnight -- and that in many cases just added to the challenge. Read about the special names associated with the time of Halloween by reading "Pickets, Cabbages, and the Pigman: Halloween Lore" by going here.
4. They say that drinking warm milk can help one fall asleep. But what does drinking warm goat milk the way Heather Wilkinso Rojo illustrates in a family photograph do for someone? Perhaps it is what one does after having a lot of wine with your friends? 😀 See Heather's funny Photo Friday here. [Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Heather.]
5. This week Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist, posted a very interesting photo of an unknown antique device. Have a look here first and then scroll down to read the comments.
6. At some point all genealogists come to learn about the extremely sorrowful destruction of the 1890 Federal Census "due to a fire in the building where the records were stored." And that usually is as far as the explanation goes. This week The Weekly Geneaologist of NEHGS provided a link to an article that gives us all a more detailed explanation of the loss of the 1890 Census due to two fires (1896 & 1921). You can read it here.
7. And finally, most genealogists are fascinated by photographs (and especially old photographs). Another "Story of Interest" highlighted in The Weekly Genealogist by NEHGS is an article titled "19 Of The Oldest Photographs From The History of Photography." Have a look here.
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4. They say that drinking warm milk can help one fall asleep. But what does drinking warm goat milk the way Heather Wilkinso Rojo illustrates in a family photograph do for someone? Perhaps it is what one does after having a lot of wine with your friends? 😀 See Heather's funny Photo Friday here. [Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Heather.]
5. This week Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist, posted a very interesting photo of an unknown antique device. Have a look here first and then scroll down to read the comments.
6. At some point all genealogists come to learn about the extremely sorrowful destruction of the 1890 Federal Census "due to a fire in the building where the records were stored." And that usually is as far as the explanation goes. This week The Weekly Geneaologist of NEHGS provided a link to an article that gives us all a more detailed explanation of the loss of the 1890 Census due to two fires (1896 & 1921). You can read it here.
7. And finally, most genealogists are fascinated by photographs (and especially old photographs). Another "Story of Interest" highlighted in The Weekly Genealogist by NEHGS is an article titled "19 Of The Oldest Photographs From The History of Photography." Have a look here.
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Copyright 2019, John D. Tew
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